| Memories of Soviet Armenia 
| Yerevan is one of the oldest cities in the world. Year is the year of its foundation base Urartian Erebuni - 782 g BC. e., located on the southern edge of modern Yerevan, although no data indicating the existence of a significant settlement on the site of the city during the IV century BC. e. to III century BC. e. However, from this very ancient times left few traces. Despite being the capital of the province of pre-revolutionary Erivan retains the form of poor provincial-east of the city, with a one-two-story adobe houses and narrow winding streets. Serdar and fortress palace lay in ruins. Therefore, the capital of Soviet Armenia had to be built as if anew, "turnkey". The Soviet city planners had the opportunity to think carefully about the layout and images of architectural ensembles, but Yerevan is one of those towns where the architecture is secondary and primary geography, natural landscape. The main attraction and symbol of Yerevan is billowing on the horizon majestic Ararat, for which all of the city buildings is just a background. | 1. At the heart of Yerevan, in pl. Lenin in 1975. 
| Stalinist style gained in Yerevan, as in many other former Soviet republics, the unique local flavor. And the city its own special color .. From the photographs I have always thought that almost all of Yerevan buildings are designed in a sandy-brown palette. |
 
2. The central area of ??the city, then called in honor of Lenin, 1975. 
3. Fountains in the same area, 1975. 
4. Lenin Square in 1973. 
5. The same area in 1957. 
| After the collapse of the USSR Lenin Square was renamed Republic Square.
According to Wikipedia, "the center of the architectural ensemble of the city is the Square of the Republic (1924-1958 years). Form a square shape 5 buildings: the building of the National History Museum of Armenia, the Armenian government building with the main clock tower in the country, the Central Post Office Building PA, hotel «Marriott Armenia», the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Energy. In front of the Museum of History of Armenia are the legendary "singing" fountains, a simultaneous change their color. "But it is these days. |
6. Theatre of Opera and Ballet. AA Spendiarov (1926-39, architect. Tamanyan AI, completed in 1953), 1951. 
7. Square-Spandarian, 1971. 
8. "Moscow" cinema, 1960s or 1970s. 
9. Monument in honor of Stepan Shaumyan, 1971. 
10. Despite seysmoopanost, in Soviet times in Yerevan appeared quite vasokie building, for example, the Post Office. 
11. Airport, 1986. 
12. Sports and Entertainment Complex, 1985. 
13. A monument to the architect. Tamanyan. 
| Tamanyan - the father of modern Yerevan.
According to Wikipedia, the Soviet government started a large-scale reconstruction of Yerevan, conducted since 1924 by Alexander O. Tamanyan developed specific national style with elements of traditional church architecture and tuff as a building material. During the renovation, the city has completely changed its appearance, almost all existing buildings were destroyed (among them - the fortress, whose stone went to lining the waterfront, Sardar Palace, almost all churches and mosques). New streets were paved, Yerevan was electrified, carried water and sewage. Plantations on the surrounding hills away with dust storms, the former scourge of the old Erivan. |
14. Monument nut Nahapetov (legendary ancestor of the Armenians) .. Sculptor K.Nuridzhanyan. 
15. The monument "Mother Armenia". Sculptor A. Harutyunyan. 
| Finally, another quote from Wikipedia: "Today, Yerevan is changing dramatically every day, and takes the form of a modern European capital with national characteristics. Construction in acquiring a global scale, changing the city beyond recognition. A new North Avenue, across the city and the district is dotted modern buildings, the city created a lot of foreign embassies and consulates, Yerevan is gaining political and economic power to spread their cultural, political and economic influence far beyond the borders of the Republic of Armenia ".. |
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